History ComicBook / LifeWithArchieTheMarriedLife

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The mysterious busboy identified only as Wendell is stalking Kevin's husband Clay Walker and hates getting his picture taken. [[spoiler:This is because he doesn't want to be identified as the HeteronormativeCrusader who shot Clay during one of his robberies in Riverdale and is now going on a rampage by shooting down gay employees at the Southport Mall, not voting for Kevin on gun control, and attempting to off him when his plan of rejecting Kevin as senator fails.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: In the first issue alone, Moose and Midge break up in order to avoid further DomesticAbuse, Miss Grundy contracts a fatal disease, and the Betty of the Archie Marries Veronica timeline has lost the will to live (as did the Veronica of the Archie Marries Betty timeline). Same goes for some issues leading up to the penultimate issue, [[spoiler:as HeteronormativeCrusader and busboy Wendell injures Kevin's husband Clay Walker and seeks out for Kevin's life, all the while shooting gay employees in the Southport Mall; and by the time he catches up to Kevin in the Chocklit Shack and is prepared to shoot him, Archie jumps into the fray before TakingTheBullet for him, leading to Wendell's arrest.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: In the first issue alone, Moose and Midge break up in order to avoid further DomesticAbuse, Miss Grundy contracts a fatal disease, and the Betty of the Archie Marries Veronica timeline has lost the will to live (as did the Veronica of the Archie Marries Betty timeline). Same goes for some issues leading up to the penultimate issue, [[spoiler:as HeteronormativeCrusader Wendell injures Kevin's husband Clay Walker and seeks out for Kevin's life, all the while shooting gay employees in the Southport Mall; and by the time he catches up to Kevin in the Chocklit Shack and is prepared to shoot him, Archie jumps into the fray before TakingTheBullet for him, leading to Wendell's arrest.]]

** More like a BittersweetEnding, [[spoiler:as Wendell, the shooter who killed Archie and now intends to do the same to Kevin, is stopped by the police and apprehended, but still...]]

* BigNo: [[spoiler:Archie screams out this trope in issue #36 as he sees an assassin's gun pointed at Kevin before jumping into the fray and in the line of fire.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: In the first issue alone, Moose and Midge break up in order to avoid further DomesticAbuse, Miss Grundy contracts a fatal disease, and the Betty of the Archie Marries Veronica timeline has lost the will to live (as did the Veronica of the Archie Marries Betty timeline). Same goes for some issues leading up to the penultimate issue, [[spoiler:as an unnamed HeteronormativeCrusader injures Kevin's husband Clay Walker and seeks out for Kevin's life, all the while shooting gay employees in the Southport Mall; and by the time he catches up to Kevin in the Chocklit Shack and is prepared to shoot him, Archie jumps into the fray before TakingTheBullet for him, leading to the shooter's arrest.]]

** More like a BittersweetEnding, [[spoiler:as the unnamed shooter who killed Archie and intended to do the same to Kevin is stopped by the police and apprehended, but still...]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: In the first issue alone, Moose and Midge break up in order to avoid further DomesticAbuse, Miss Grundy contracts a fatal disease, and the Betty of the Archie Marries Veronica timeline has lost the will to live (as did the Veronica of the Archie Marries Betty timeline).

* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: [[spoiler:By killing off the Archie of this comic line, Archie Comics got to draw publicity from killing off a 70+ years-old comic character, without actually changing anything in the Archie Prime universe since the original Archie will still be alive and well]].

''Life With Archie: The Married Life'' is an ongoing storyline in ArchieComics. It was launched in its own series in September 2010.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Archie dies in issue #36]]

* FourthWallObserver: [[spoiler: Dilton]].
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: Mr. Lodge, due to the multiverse]].

The comics differ from the norm in several ways, being printed in magazine format and having DarkerAndEdgier storylines, with SoapOpera plot twists and situations. The series will come to an end in issue #37 with [[spoiler: the death of Archie in both Veronica and Betty universes]] and the fallout from it.

* ExpandableAlternateUniverse: [[spoiler:By killing off the Archie of this comic line, Archie Comics got to draw publicity from killing off a 70+ years-old comic character, without actually changing anything in the Archie Prime universe since the original Archie will still be alive and well]].

* OhAndXDies: The fact that [[spoiler:Achie was going to die]] was announced already in April 2014. The details of how and why was then revealed in July.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Archie, we hardly knew thee.]]

The comics differ from the norm in several ways, being printed in magazine format and having DarkerAndEdgier storylines, with SoapOpera plot twists and situations. The series will come to an end in issue #37 with [[spoiler:[[DownerEnding the death of Archie in both Veronica and Betty universes]]]]

* WhamEpisode: Issues 10 and 18.

* DonwerEnding: [[spoiler:Archie dies in issue #36]]

The comics differ from the norm in several ways, being printed in magazine format and having DarkerAndEdgier storylines, with SoapOpera plot twists and situations.

* ShoutOut: After Archie marries Veronica, Betty dates a lot of guys who, in her own words, have been "Archie all over again." She name-drops [[Series/TheAldrichFamily Henry Aldrich]], Film/AndyHardy, [[Series/HappyDays Richie Cunningham]], [[Series/SavedByTheBell Zack Morris]] and [[Film/HighSchoolMusical Troy Bolton]].

Not to be confused with ''ComicBook/AfterlifeWithArchie'', which is a zombie apocalypse comic/

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mr. Lodge [[spoiler: and Fred Mirth]].

* UnluckyEverydude: Archie in both scenarios to an extent, and, surprisingly, Reggie.